Daily Archive: Monday, August 14, 2017

ExxonMobil hosted a delegation of Government Ministers from Guyana at its Campus in Houston, Texas on August 10 and 11.

  (Reuters) – Merck & Co Inc Chief Executive Kenneth Frazier resigned from U.S.

The Police say they are investigating the murder of Sylvan Stoll, 50, an electrician of Plot ‘B’, Herstelling, EBD, which occurred about 12.40 am today at No.

A mystery aircraft was seized by the police on an improvised airstrip in the North Rupununi yesterday after three men were seen running from it.

(Trinidad Guardian) A High Court judge has called on Parliament to revise immigration laws to more clearly define the powers of Immigration officials in handling illegal immigrants and refugees.

A Timehri, East Bank Demerara miner was beaten to death on Saturday at a dredge site in the Potaro backdam during an alcohol-fuelled clash with a co-worker.

More than a year after the drug bond scandal erupted, there is nothing to suggest that the multimillion contract for the monthly rental of the Sussex Street property has been terminated, according to PPP/C MP Anil Nandlall who has expressed concern over the matter and called for it to be put back on the front burner.

(ESPN) In a battle of the winless, Guyana Amazon Warriors got off the mark in tense fashion, securing a six-wicket win with a ball to spare courtesy a rounded batting effort chasing a target of 153.

Passengers travelling to New York with US-based carrier Dynamic Airways have once again voiced their frustration at the continued cancellations and delays they have been experiencing.

Remarkable displays of speed, strength, stamina and leaping ability, enabled the Guyana Police Force Athletic Club (GPFAC) to retain the championship trophy of the Boyce/Jefford Classic last night at the MacKenzie Sports Club (MSC) ground. 

As part of stepped up operations in Guyana’s waters, ExxonMobil will be putting down a series of buoys around its Liza well in the Stabroek Block and within a matter of weeks it will have a total of eight vessels offshore engaged in various tasks.

Five men were last week arraigned in Bartica on rape charges in relation to two teen girls and were granted bail.

Guyana ended their CONCACAF Girls u17 Football Championship campaign win-less, going down 8-0 to Cuba yesterday in their final group matchup at the National Track and Field Centre, Leonora.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Trinidad and Tobago denied United States a seventh successive world 4×400 metres relay title when Lalonde Gordon overhauled Fred Kerley on the final straight to win a breathtaking final at the World Athletics Championships yesterday.

Once the sole bread winner for his family, 45-year-old Wasir Ali is now left to depend on his wife to take care of him after a life-changing accident cost him his left leg.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Caster Semenya claimed another global title when she won the world 800 metres gold yesterday and after surging clear to record one minute 55.16 seconds she said she now has an eye on the world record.

More than two months after questions were first raised as to how a former PNC MP, Jennifer Ferreira-Dougall, 63, came to be appointed as the Deputy Regional Executive Officer (DREO) of Region Three, no information has been provided by the Public Service Commission (PSC) confirming that the post was advertised as should be the case.

GTT on Saturday said that for more than three months its customers have been unable to receive text messages (SMS) from Digicel customers because of programming problems on the Digicel network.

Dear Editor, The APNU+AFC coalition government has had a tremendous lot to clean up administratively since attaining office in 2015.

(Reuters) – German fourth seed Alexander Zverev upset Roger Federer 6-3 6-4 in the Rogers Cup final in Montreal yesterday to join the Swiss right-hander as the most trophy-laden player on the ATP Tour this year with five titles.

Dear Editor, What is wrong with GuySuCo? Can’t they write sensible arithmetic?

The murders of University of Guyana (UG) student Azrudeen Hussain and poultry vendor Desmond Singh eight months ago after leaving an illegal cockfighting competition have been added to the list of shelved police investigations until new leads are provided.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Olympic champions the United States reclaimed their women’s 4x400m relay world title as Jamaica suffered more injury heartbreak in the World Championships final yesterday.

Jamal McPherson, a Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Lance Corporal is hospitalised in the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital, after being involved in an accident on the Timehri Public Road, East Bank Demerara yesterday.

DERBY, England,  CMC – Opener Kieran Powell hit a stroke-filled hundred as West Indies rounded off their preparation for the next week’s first Test in style, with another strong batting display at Derbyshire here yesterday.

A seventeen-year-old boy was yesterday afternoon stabbed several times during an attack over the use of a bicycle in Norton Street, Wortmanville.

Dear Editor, In the previous government and in the current government there definitely appears in the system of tendering to be a certain level of corruption and favouritism.

Dear Editor, Jacob Zuma narrowly escaped his eighth no confidence vote in Parliament last Tuesday since becoming President of South Africa in 2009.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Usain Bolt took an emotional final bow on the track at the end of the World Championships in London yesterday before declaring that, definitely and definitively, there was no way he would ever return to sprinting.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s remarks condemning violence at a white nationalist rally were meant to include the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi groups, the White House said yesterday, a day after he was criticized across the political spectrum for not explicitly denouncing white supremacists.

Pacesetters defeated Nets 66-59 in their Open Divisional matchup, when the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) League continued on Saturday at the Burnham Court on Carmichael and Middle streets.

Dear Editor, Retired Assistant Commissioner of Police, Clinton Conway seems to have a serious problem with his interpretation of the law.

An unidentified male was killed early yesterday morning along the Soesdyke roadway, after a vehicle, driven by a police constable collided with  him.

(Reuters) – A peaceful solution to unrest and political turmoil in Venezuela is possible, U.S.

The news out of Nigeria, an oil producing nation, is that the court has ordered the seizure of a luxury apartment block owned by a former Minister of Petroleum Resources bought for US$37.5 allegedly from ill-gotten gains.

A man was on Friday remanded to prison after being charged with possession of cannabis.

PALLEKELE, Sri Lanka, (Reuters) – India’s bowlers left Sri Lanka staring at a big defeat and a series whitewash after another shambolic batting performance saw the hosts being bundled out for 135 in their first innings in the third and final test yesterday.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – The Venezuelan government has recovered some weapons stolen in the Aug.

(Reuters) – Heather Heyer came to downtown Charlottesville with her friends to make a stand against white nationalists who converged on the Virginia college town to demand the city keep a statue honoring a Confederate war hero, her boss said on Sunday.

Dear Editor, I’d like to congratulate the STEM Guyana Robotics team on an excellent showing at the First Global Robotics Championship.

With the midpoint of the APNU+AFC term in office approaching, citizens might be excused for thinking that they flit back and forth between two very different existences.

(Trinidad Express) The Banking, Insurance and General Workers Union (BIGWU) has issued a warning to companies to cease retrenching workers or face a boycott.

Almost one month since he underwent much-needed eye surgery, Lethem youth Vaughn Duncan is happy to say that he has recovered well and is back to living a normal life.

Dear Editor, Your editorial of August 11 titled “The role of youth”  caught my attention for both its timeliness and substance. 

  ‘Based on my experience, I can say that I am extremely disappointed with the contracting industry which Guyana has to offer.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Man-of-the-Match Sunil Narine thrilled in his new role as opener with a career-best half-century as Trinbago Knight Riders stayed top of the Caribbean Premier League standings with a two-wicket victory over arch-rivals Barbados Tridents here late Saturday night.

The recent launch of an integrated health service delivery network in Region One with no mental health care component was rather puzzling, given that the World Health Organization (WHO) has long stressed the need for mental health care to be decentralized and integrated into primary health care.

A teenaged boy charged with armed robberies was on Thursday fined a total of $50,000 and ordered to attend counselling for alcoholic and narcotics abuse, after the reading of a probation report.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – The head of an Indian hospital where dozens of children died in recent days has been suspended, as officials traded blame over cash shortfalls that led to supplies of medical oxygen being cut.

The Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB), on Friday held a four-leg outreach in Corentyne, East Berbice with rice farmers.